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  • - Hemingway in Paris
    af Peter Griffin
    265,95 kr.

    When the first installment of Peter Griffin's biography of Hemingway appeared in 1985, it won widespread acclaim, especially among writers. The late Raymond Carver, in The New York Times Book Review, called it "wonderful and intimate" and said "it brings to life the young Hemingway with all his charm, vitality, good looks, passionate dedication to writing, like nothing else I've ever read about the man." Ward Just called Along With Youth "one of the most purely attractive biographies I have ever read." Tom Stoppard chose it as one of his "Books of the Year." And James Dickey declared that Griffin's "involvement with his subject is so complete and so creative that the reader cannot help murmuring with approval and enlightenment at page after page." Along With Youth brought Hemingway from childhood to his marriage in 1921 to Hadley Richardson. Now, in Less Than a Treason, Peter Griffin vividly recaptures Ernest's early Paris years, when he met Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, tnd F. Scott Fitzgerald, and published his first important collection of stories, In Our Time, as well as his finest novel, The Sun Also Rises. As in the first volume, Griffin provides here an intimately detailed rendering of Hemingway's life. The book is replete with physical detail--the sights and sounds of working-class Paris, skiing in the Austrian Alps, the running of the bulls at Pamplona. Griffin presents Hemingway's friendships with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound (he thought both were "lazy," but respected them for their talent and influence), his dislike of writers John Dos Passos and Ford Maddox Ford and his less-than-favorable opinion of Maxwell Perkins (he felt Perkins was more interested in business than literature). For Hemingway's personal life, there is his infatuation with Lady Duff Twysden, his affair with Pauline Pheiffer, and the failure of his first marriage. Throughout this book, Griffin shows how Hemingway incorporated much of his life into his fiction, where the central character is Ernest himself, working out the crises that plagued him at the time. Griffin does all this with a seamless style, weaving unpublished material (including hours of Hadley's reminiscences recorded shortly before her death) into an intriguing narrative of a great writer's life.

  • - Hemingway, the Early Years
    af Peter Griffin
    145,95 - 184,95 kr.

    This biography traces the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. The first of a projected three-volume life, it examines Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I.

  • af Peter Griffin
    72,95 kr.

    De ledte efter sandheden – de fandt den største løgn. Året er 2030, og verden er ikke, som den var før krigen. Internettet er forsvundet, computere og mobiler er væk, og folk hører deres musik på kassettebånd. I seks år har Philips far ledt efter en hemmelig serverpark, hvor al viden fra den gamle verden ligger gemt. Men netop da han afslører, at han har fundet serverne, bliver han ramt af en blodprop, og Philip ved med det samme, at det ikke er tilfældigt. Sammen med sin kæreste, Amy, starter Philip nu en hæsblæsende jagt for at finde frem til de skjulte servere, men nogen er lige i hælene på dem. Serverne gemmer nemlig på en hemmelighed, der er langt større, end Philip nogensinde kunne forestille sig. Ny dansk spændingsroman for unge. Server er Peter Griffins første roman for unge.

  • af Peter Griffin
    231,95 kr.

    It is an unfortunate comment on culture today that the wicked and evil steal the show because sin and suffering appear as the most universal experience of the human condition. But the opposite perspective is certainly worth our attention, if not devotion. We spend our lives waiting for that most desired but evanescent of human experiences, moments of love-through family, children, and, most definitively, through our lovers. These moments are deep but fleeting leaving us like dishes taken from the table before we have had a chance to savor the meal. In over one hundred poems provided by the poet, Peter D. Griffin, and fifteen portraits from the artist, John Schlereth, LOVE LAND, explores the deep loves and passion of these men through their poetry and art. They have examined their lives through decades of time, representing the loves they have known with all beauty that art and imagination allow. In this book Peter Griffin finds love on many hidden perches-from the common events of his family to his now settled professional life. John Schlereth creates penetrating art from his portraits of women, making their images into something radiant, beyond themselves. His art is unimaginably new and fresh. Not only has he created a completely new form of portrait making, with his use of finely crafted cardboard cutouts as his only medium, he has created a new form of art. The two men have managed an unlikely duet using two different art forms through which love and beauty is recreated anew. Consistent with Griffin's life thesis, this book presents love as the cornerstone of the human condition for all of us.

  • af Peter Griffin
    73,95 kr.

    David Pilcher er en usikker ung mand, der arbejder som markedsanalytiker i et medicinalfirma i London, hvor han beskæftiger sig med at indsamle oplysninger om mindre konkurrenter inden for branchen.Efter en god indsats forfremmes han til at skulle holde øje med firmaets største konkurrent, Genistry Group. Denne overvågning bringer ham på sporet af en mystisk sag, som involverer en hemmelig kode, spionage, bedrag og mord, men modner også David, der møder den smukke Karen fra Genistry Group.David er pludselig klar over, at hans og Karens liv er i fare. De er omgivet af fjender til alle sider, og David er bange for, at han selv bliver det næste offer.Peter Griffin er en dansk spændingsforfatter, der af pressen er blevet kaldt "den danske Stephen King"."Uhyggeligt spændende thriller fra medicinalindustriens lukkede verden."- Bogsamleren"Underholdende og spændende erhvervsthriller."- Lektørudtalelse"Kvik og underholdende spændingsroman."- Venstrepressen

  • af Peter Griffin
    92,95 kr.

    Under og efter anden verdenskrig hærger massemorderen Samuel Craig i Londons gader. Men omsider bliver han fanget af politimanden Bobby Woodridge og dømt til døden. Fireoghalvtreds år senere mister John Graves sine forældre ved en trafikulykke. Efter ulykken får han psykiske problemer, og for at redde forholdet til sin kæreste, Susan, indvilger han i at opsøge en psykolog. Han starter i behandling og føler, at tingene begynder at gå i den rigtige retning. Men under hypnose afslører han en mærkelig viden om massemorderen Samuel Craig. Og det viser sig hurtigt, at hans problemer først lige er begyndt ..."Overlegen stilfornemmelse og upåklagelig fornemmelse for, hvornår gysene skal snige sig ind på læseren."- Ekstra Bladet"Nervepirrende og spændende."- Jydske Vestkysten"Hårrejsende uslippelig læsning." - Fyns Amts Avis"Fremragende original thriller af international høj standard."- Krimicirklen"Ny spændende dansk forfatter bag uhyggelig god roman."- BogsamlerenPeter Griffin er en dansk spændingsforfatter, der af pressen er blevet kaldt "den danske Stephen King"

  • af Peter Griffin
    92,95 kr.

    Fortid: I år 1215 ulmer oprøret i England. Kong Johns magt er truet af kirken og de engelske baroner. I et forsøg på at afværge en borgerkrig bliver en af kongens mænd sendt af sted efter et relikvieskrin på Hereford Castle, som kan sikre kongen kirkens støtte. En af kongens livvagter, Garreth af Pershore, bliver udvalgt til opgaven. Han har siddet fængslet på Hereford, og har et indgående kendskab til slottet. Det bliver en farefuld rejse, som bringer Garreth i konfrontation med sin gamle fjende, baron Henry Bohun.Nutid: David arbejder som konservator for et auktionshus i London. Han kommer i besiddelse af pergamenter efterladt af en Garreth af Pershore, der omtaler et relikvieskrin skjult på Hereford. Pergamenterne forsvinder efterfølgende, og David sætter sig for at skaffe dem tilbage. Det viser sig, at også andre søger efter relikvieskrinet, og sporene peger i retning af hans eget firma."Historiens vogter" foregår i middelalderen og nutiden og fortæller en fængende historie om to mænds søgen efter samme genstand adskilt af 800 år."Griffin har en sjælden evne til at fremmane et levende billede af en mulig virkelighed bag de støvede dokumenter."- Jyllands-Posten"Peter Griffin har skrevet en drengebog for voksne – fuld af Robin Hood-action."- Politiken

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